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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-10-15
Making Scented Extracts.
RICHLAND, Mich.

Pomades are the commercial vehicle
for absorbing and transporting the per-
fumes of the jonquil, tuberose, and a
few other species of flowers. A square
frame, or chassis, of white wood, and
about twenty inches by thirty inches
IN size, is set with a pane of strong
plate-glass. On each side of the glass
is spread thin, even layer of grease,
which has been purified and refined.
Thus prepared, the frames are piled
up IN ranks six or seven feet high, to
await the season of each special flower.
When the blossoms arrive the petals
are picked from the stems-the pistils
and stamens being discarded-and laid
so as to cover the grease in each frame.
These being again piled so as to rest up
on their wooden edges, which fit closely
together, there is formed series of
tight chambers, the floors and ceilings
of which are of grease, exposed to the
perfume of the flower leaves within.
The grease absorbs the perfume, the
spent flowers are removed daily, and
fresh ones supplied, and this process
goes on from two to four or five months,
according to the desired strength OF
the pomade, which, when sufficiently
charged with perfume, is taken from
the glass with wide thin spatula and
packed in tin cans for export. BY these
methods the delicate odors of flowers
are extracted and retained for trans
port to distant markets, where, being
treated with alcohol, they yield their
perfume to that stronger vehicle, and
produce the floral waters and extracts
of commerce. COarser pomades are
made by boiling the flowers n the
grease and subjecting the residue to
pressure. The spent pomades are used
for toilet purposes aud In the manu-
facture of fine soaps. The process OF
preparing perfumed oils involves the
same principle, except that instead OF
solid grease, superfine olive oil is used.
With this oil, pieces of coarse cotton
fabric are satuated, which are then
spread upon wire netting, stretched in
wooden frames about three feet by four
feet in size. The flowers are spread
upon the saturated cloths, and the
frames piled one above the other, so
that the perfume of the flowers is alb
sorbed as in the previous process.
Essences and flower waters" are pro-
duced by ordinary distillation. in which
the flowers are boiled with water in
large alembics. The vapor carries off
the perfume, and is condensed in adj
joining copper tanks, like ordinary
spirits. Some of the retorts used 70,
this purpose are of sufficient size to re-
ceive at once half ton of fresh flowers
with the requisite water for their dis
tillation. When "hower waters" are to
be produced, alcohol is used in the
distilling tank to receive the perfumes.
By skillful combinations of the per-
fumes of different flowers, sometimes
with the addition of chemicals, large
variety of handkerchief extracts, such
as "Patchouli," Jockey Club, West
End" etc, are produced. Chambers
journal
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-10-15
HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY


Don't eniice flies into your cook-room
by leaving a little milk in one cup and
grease in another between meals. Scald
your tin vessels with I've water. Wash
Your tableware in soapsuds and rinse them
in water slightly blue. Keep handy piece
OF sand paper to rub your steel knives.
Put your silver spoons, knives, and forks
i'll white flannel sack containing pow
dered chalk.
Don't make fire in your back yard
every three months for the purpose of
burning up your old clothes. Tear them
in strips one half inch wide, sew together
firmly and smoothly; wind them into balls.
Have your husband make you two wooden
knitting needles, thirty inches long. cast
on your stitches in the usual manner for
knitting plain cloth, knit back and forth
until you get rug of any desired length.
Spread them around your cook stove.
Take ID cents and buy you n brush for
cleaning the handles of your cups, stands
etc. Dirt settled around the handles of
tableware looks nasty. Brush back your
hair and see that your collar is properly
adjusted before sitting down to do the
honors of the table. II you don't feel
pleasant see if you can assume pleas
ant appearance at the table; nothing looks
better.
Don't feed your company on apologies;
give them something more substantial.
Before going out shopping know what you
want and the quality of the same; don t
pull and haul over every piece of goods in
the store. II you are not good i'll ige of
the article you want, frankly tell your mer-
chant so, and request him to select it for
YOU. As rule, all women are not Judges
of shoes and kid gloves. If Won can af-
ford but one fine article of clothing let
that be n pair of shoes. Don't Wear u 10
cent collar, n 75-cent pair of shoes, and a
25-cent pair of gloves with a dress tLat
cost 5l.5O per yard. Let your whole suit
correspond in quality. Don't put so
bureau in your parlor and have q set of
rawhide- bottom chairs to 90 with it.
Don't entertain your visitors by lament
ing over your inferior help, or by not Env-
ing any at all. Hire your help by the year,
and pay them salary sufficient to keep
them. You had better pay SD per month
for good help than 50 for inferior. Don't
hire inferior help if you believe In falling
from Grace.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-10-15
The Drum Major.

The drum major dates back to the
time of Charles L., but whether he was
the gorgeous creature that We see now
adays we are unable to say. The bust
ness of the original drum major was to
receive orders from the major OF the
battalion concerning the necessary
beats or signals, and communicate
them to the drummers. But, bless
you! the drum major of to-day receives
orders from nobody. We would like
to see a major or even general who
would dare to approach this magnifi-
cent creature in crimson and gold, sur
mounted by tall shake, and attempt
to give him orders on any subject. He
Is boss of the show, and General Sher-
idan himself shrinks back abashed
when he strides past. SUti71gS.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-10-15

IN boiling a pudding leave room for it to
swell. If cooked in a mould do not iill 1t
up.
A GLOSSY starch is made 10y mixing to-
pether quart of starch, a teaspoonlul of
salt, and one of wlSte soap scraped iine;
boil after ad ling hot water until as thick
| as you wish.
SATURATE the edges of carpets with a
strong solution of alum water to destroy
moths; if an implanted floor, wash the
floor with it before putting down the car
pet. Do the same TO shelves where black
ants appear.
| OLCLoTH may be improved ia appear
| nnce by rubbing it with mixture of a
! balf-ounce of beeswax III saucetfBl of
! turpentine. set this IN a warm place until
! they can be thoroughly mixed. Apply
with flannel cloth, and then rub with q
/ dry flannel.
To TAKE varnish off of furniture use a
/ solution of about eight pounds of common
washing soda TO gallon of water. Apply
| this TO the work with q common paint
brush, and after allowing II to stand for q
| short time the varnish can lie removed
with an ordinary stiff scrubbing brush.
EQUAL parts Of strong ammonia water,
| ether. and alcohol form a valuable clean
! ing compound. Pass piece Of blottIpg
| pauer under the grease spot. iuoisten a
sponpe first with water TO render Il
! agreedy." then with the mixture. and rub
| the spot with 1t. In a moment IT Is dis
solved. saponifed, aud absorbed by the
| sponee and blotter.
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start on sudden, YOU be mighty apt

start on sudden, YOU be mighty apt
to feel uncomfortable
1t seemed as if the horses had made
up their minds to start ON sudden; )"
for, sure enough, they now lift their
heels in the air, and the next moment,
with a snort of disdain, dash forward
and go tearing down the road like veri-
table demons of evil
ODE grits his teeth and grasps the
lines tightly, as the light carriage
plunges from side to side, in danger of
upsetting every moment, and Miss
Chidley, collapsed and angrier than
ever, fops down to the bottom of the
vehicle a red and tumbled heap of
womanhood.
Brace yo'self, mistiss," cries ODE,
"brace yo'self. We're off now TO shuah
Horay TO desc Ingin debbils. L done
tole yer dey were tricky"
Miss Chidley, quite as obstinate in
her way, as the horses were in their
way, or as ODE was in his way, shut her
lips tightly as her head bumped against
the sides of the carriage.
Never mind, Obe," she manages to
scream up at the black imp of a driver.
"Ihey don't know any better. Have
patience. Time and kindness will tame
them
Oars time nutf-'taint dat ar, says
ODE dryly. "Ef on'y de drafted har-
nesses hold togedder- which KANT be
reckoned on--wid sech warmints in
en-"
Away the ponies go, plunging up ehe
little hill, snorting down the long level
stretch of shaded road toward the
river, ODE saving away at the lines,
and his mistress bobbing about the bot
tom of the carriage.
Don't let them run into the river, ="
cries Miss Chidley, as this possibility
suddenly pops across her mental vision,
and the river itself spreads out broad
and shining in the immediate fore
ground. Il don't care to be drowned.
"Nebber mind de ribber," is Obe's
consoling reply, as the willful beasts
make straight for the banks, "nebber
mind bout de ribber mistiss. You's a
Babtis' anyway, an water 'grees wit
de Baptists.
TTp NJ ,,ONrTrNsIrII, I
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-10-15
EAIRYLAND.
by poB FORD.


Away, far away from the heat OF the day
strife
And the burdens and cares Of a work a-day life
Where sou signing zephyIs Hiss roses so fair,
And watt their sweet perfume broadcast on tho
air;
Where from fairy-like grotto. and cool, shady
Come the silverv echoes of babbling brook,
Lives queer little elf, with q score like him
self,
And the futtering moth or sweet singing bird,
VIII pause his gurgliug laughter is heard.
Now sporting IN stream, or in lingering sun
beam,
Struggled deep in the fresh and dew-sprinkled
moss,
Laughs loudly at time, nor reckons its loss
in that queer little realm, always bright, ever
gay,
Where day is as night and night is as day
And the broad spreading fern forms d canopy
fair,
Meath which strange little people hold carnival
rare,
And tiny bells jingle. as fairy forms mingle
there
'Tis gay little kingdom, this kingdom Of
sprite6,
Where fair little ladies and daintiest knights,
And the wisest and woest of miniature sGses,
Unseen by the world, have held court for ages,
You may look high and low, and search 70 and
And gaze in each sweet scented flower,
And tho keen be your eye, not an elf you Il
espy,
Nor Ger find wee fairy bower;
But they're there Just the same, and they laugh
in high glee,
As, peering about, we mortals they see.
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Didn't l tell you SOP" said gentleman
to All acquaintance whom he CHANGED to
meet on the street cts always the way"
Whats always the way?" inquired a mu-
tual friend of the two men who happened
the first speaker; you see smith, here, the
last time | met him he had one of the
worst coughs you ever heard. He com
planned OF loss of appetite, of night
sweats, Of low spirits and other unmistaka-
bic premonitory symptoms of consumption.
| told him to get a supply of DR.. Pierce's
so, and look at him now Did you ever
see a notwithstanding man? The Discov-
cry has snatched thousands from con-
sumptives' graves. l knew it would cure
Smith. It's always the way"
ISAAC GREENWOOD, of New York, has
devoted half his life to studying Chinese
coins.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-10-15
A Remarkable Case

A case of somewhat remarkable char
acter IS at the present time in the Lon
don Temperance Hospital, under the
care OF DR.. II. j. Lee. A girl, aged l5,
bad the last molar tooth in the lower
jaw on the right side removed about six
weeks ago. No an@sthetic was admin
istered. She was in perfect health
at the time. Half an hour after
the operation she began to
yawn, and Las continued to do SO
since. One yawn succeeded another
without interruption, ana with an in
teryal OF two or three seconds. Galvan-
ism has been tried without effect, and
other remedies previous to admission to
the hospital. Three days afterward the
yawning changed to sneezing, and re-
Gently she has Suffered from constant
and rapidly succeeding fits of sneezing,
each of which paroxysms appear TO be-
gin with yawn. She seems to have no
power of controlling herself, or only to a
very slight extent; and ifshe attempts to
do so the next sneeze is more violent.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-10-15
LIVE STOCK NOTES.
Good s'ood o., YostnJ Catres

F0Od |2nd or RoHIAT totres.
Some interesting results of experiments
in feeding calves are recorded in a report of
the Munster England Agricultural and
Dairy School. Just issued. The foods tried
were as follows, the quantities named
being given daily: /. Eight quarts Of
skinned milk. :. Ten quarts OF separated
milk. 3. A mixture prepared by pouring
eight quarts of boiling water on one quart
of linseed meal and one and one-third
quarts of bean meal, covered up for twenty
four hours, and then boiled with more
water, enough of which was added to pro-
vide eight quarts for each calf. 4. 4 feed
ing meal sold ut II shilings per hundred
weight, mixed with water quantity not
stated. Two calves were put on each kind
of food, and, after they were a month old
each had little hay. The experiment
lasted from the 10th OF May till the 9th
of August. The average daily increase in
live weight in the different lots was 10
pounds for No. l, III pounds for No. :,
1.G5 pounds for No. 3, and IS pounds for
No. f.. The cost per pound of increase
was respectively, in the same order of lots,
80 pence, pence, l.55 pence, and PIG.
The mixture OF bean meal and linseed
meal, therefore, gave the best increase at
the least cost per pound. Another expert
ment was that of testing the quality of
butter produced from given quantity of
milk after extracting the cream with the
Danish separator, as compared with the
quantities obtained after skmming milk
which had been allowed to stand for var-
Gus periods. The averages of foriy-thre
trials showed that, from quantity of milk
yielding 100 pounds OF butter with the use
of the separator, skimming after twenty
four hours yielded SO pounds, after thirty
six hours IS pounds, after fory-two hours
70 pounds, and after fifty four hours -
pounds. These trials, extending from IAN
nary to July, were made at various tenn
peratures. Only in a few instances was
the percentage in favor of the separator
less than Is per cent. when the proper
speed was maintained.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-10-15

riage at a dead stand-still in the mid
die Of country road, and Elizabeth
Chidiey, spinster, round, roly-poly and
rubicuud, bolt upright in the carriage,
and glaring alternately first at the
black imp perched up behind her on
the drivers box, and then at the two
black, balky ponies in front of her.
Either way she looks, the picture of an
ebony image of characterization con-
fronts her.
do you mean to tell me that you
will not obey my orders?" shouts the
angry spinster.
Now, look n here, mistiss, returns
ODE, argumentatively, ode good Lawd
knows Use willin' nutf-'t faint that.
but / done tole yer when yer bot dem
IngiG bosses how't would end What
kin pore brack boy do agin two brack
Ingin debbils, when dey make up der
MINIS to be contrary? Eff dey done
feel Ike goin', den deyll go an yer
KANT stop 'em. But eff dey done stop,
de Lawd hisself KANT start 'em to go
again less de notion Is in EN-. Shores
yo's Dawn. mistiss."
The attitude and appearance of the
ponies themselves testified to the truth
fulne OF 0be's statement. They were
evidently in a state of rebellion, and
stood firmly braced on their short legs,
stubbornly resisting every inducement
to proceed that had, so far, been
brought to bear upon them.
Miss Chidley grew purple from in
digna ion.
he, take this whip and give them
few cuts across their backs. They
viii come to their senses then, I'll
warrant"
1t his, the ponies, pair of we'll
matched black beasts, whose diminu-
tive 5 re and shaggy heads betrayed
| their orgln-turned their pointed ears
backward as if they too understood the
spinster's command-and resented it.
his Is enough to provoke a saint, -
I screams Miss Chidlev, as the black
boy makes no effort toward obeying.
"Obe, give me that whip. III start
them Or know the reason why. See if
/ don't"
Better not, returns ODE cautiously.
keeping wary eye upon the willful
horses Better not. l done tole yer
bout desc yer Ingins when yer got EN-
tricky as Satan hisself Guess yer'd
best sit down, mistiss. III dey done
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-10-15
qhc Iuck,rhent Crop.

This crop has fallen into considerable
discredit among farmers . late years, says
a writer in the country gentleman, al
though 1t has been proved by actual eX-
ferience that buckwheat Is one of the most
valuable of grains that can be grown. In
the early history of agriculture in this
country il assumed an importance in the
eyes of the new settlers that has rarely
been attained and held by any of the
other grains. The principal work of the
farmers then in the spring and fall was to
clear up new land, and get the forest land
in n tllabie state. The best scavenger
crop that could be discovered was buck
wheat, and as soon as the land thus cleared
OF trees and bushes was sufficiently pre-
pared for the reception OF seed, buckwheat
was scattered broadcast over it. Little
was expected from this first crop, yet III
addition to keeping down the weeds, and
pulveriZing the earth, n small profit was
always realized from a field that would
otherwise have remained fallow and worse
than useless. With the growth of agri-
culture IN the East, the greater part OF the
land was taken up and put in tillable
state, thus dispensing with such crops as
buckwheat, which was considered to be
valuable only when grown on new land,
where other crops would not flourish.
Gradually buckwheat was grown le $
and less by the eastern farmers, and the
idea crept in among even the more intelli-
gent land owners that this crop was tit to
be grown only 10y the lazy farmers, who
did not wish to exert themselves more than
necessary in cultivating their fields. The
crop was brought into further contempt by
the charge that il injured STOCK, both
through the straw and the grain, and, on
the whole, it was not profitable invest
ment. This latter charge has been found
to be true only 80 far as when the grain
was fed almost exclusively to the animals,
and not when mixed up with other fodder.
The grain is an exceedingly nutritious
food for both mankind and animals, and.
as it is highly heterogeneous. it is therefore
we'll fitted for mixing with corn TO he
chopped up for food for horses. The fact
that it is lazy mans crop should not de-
ter others from raising it.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-10-15
BEE-KEEPING.
4 PROFITABLE Occupation for Women

In May, 1888, visited a practical bee
keeper, spent a few hours with him, and
purchased one colony. Previous to the
summer of 1896 | sold three colonies of
bees and had six left. Last summer nv
six colonies increased to eighteen, besides
Si1o worth of surplus honey. Now. /
would like to say few words to other
sould-be beginners who want bees and
yet dread to make beginning. or else do
not know how to begin.
First, study up the flora of your locality.
Learn if there are willows. alders. msplas
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-10-15

birch, beech, Eastwood, and fruit tfee
apples, cherries, pears, peaches, plums =,
raspberrles, gooseberries, dandelion fire
weed, clover, hgwort, golden rod astts
(frostweedi, suntiower, sumac, mother
wort, mustard, mignenette, sage. rape.
buekwheat, borage, gill over the ground.
locust, teasel, pigeon plum, ETC., etc. 1t
is not necessary to be surrounded by all
the above mentioned trees and plants, for
bees are kept at a profit, even in villages
and cities. But, of course, the better the
pastnrage near the apiary the larger the
yield of surplus honey. Then write to or
visit some reliable bee keeper, the nearer
home the better, get good book on bee
culture, II colony of bees, and subscribe TO
some good bee magazine. With patience
and perseverance,, supplemented by COM
mon sense and determination to win,
there 10 no reason why one should not
make "A success Of the business
Do not let the fear of bee sting prevent
You from engaging IN a business which you
VIII hnd interesting, instructive, and profit
able. | find many people are kept out of
IT by tins same foolish fear A bees sting
Is not such an awful thing to endure, even
II you do happen TO get one occasionally,
while by proper protection, careful hand
ling, and little smoke judiciously APP
pied, one may work among bees for years
without being stung
Many have dread of handling and
hiving natural swarms Of bees. With a
movable frame hive the bee keeper can
make artificial swarms, thus doing away
with natural swarming. Or, by the use of
queen-trap, he can hive a swarm of bees
without handling them Mt all The drone
aud the queen-trap combined, an inyen-
ton of Massachusetts man, is a boon to
hee-keepers, particularly to those who al
low their bees to swarm naturally. living
u swarm of bees with the aid of trap il
such an easy, simple matter that any one
who can place III position on the ground
or stand the empty hive for the bees to
enter can alone and entirely unaided hive
a swarm. A bee loaded with honey rarely
or ever stings. Whom swarm is about to
leave the parent colony each bee takes all
the honey she can carry, which readily eX-
plains why n person is so rarely stung
when hlyng n natural swarm of bees
Era IL. Durham, iH Torn and Home.
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Because she saw that he had ceased to love
her Her beauty had faded. former high
spirits had given place to a dull lassitude.
What had caused this change? Functional
arrangement; she was suffering from those
ailments peculiar to her sex. And so their
two young lives drifted apart. How need
less how cruel Had she taken DR..
Pierccs Fayoritc Prescription she might
have been restored to health and happiness.
ii amy lady reader of these lines is similarly
afflicted, let her lose no time in procuring
the "Fayorite Prescription" 1t will give
Ter new lease of life. Sold by druggists,
under positive guarantee from the manu-
lactWcrs, OF perfect satisfaction in every
case or money refunded. See guarantee on
bottle wrapper.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-10-15
THE LILIES
BY A TwELvE-YEAR-oLD roEr.

Where the brcezes wave the grasses,
Where the stately rushes bow,
There the wind MS it passes
Kisses the lilies brow.
There they bloom in matchless beauty,
Spotless, pure and white as snow;
There, in ponds, in ehild-like purity
Lovely water lilies blow.
Lo the lilies of the field,
Pure without and pure within,
We would be, if we would yield,
Like the lilies, free from sin.
Day by day they teach unto us,
That our Savior did this way;
And in spirit Will renew us
To be gentle ev'ry day.
They toll not, neither spinning,
Yet these lovely little flowers
Keep their petals free from SHINING,
Making sweet our summer hours.
Children, you may be like flowers,
Be loving, kind to rich and poor
Tho, not like the summer bowers,
Your influence must endure.
OLIVE NJ. BENNETT
RICHLAND, Mich.
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friend. If You will be so kind as to as
sist me little, III put my gown on
now
She rises, and with the assistance of
the "motherly woman, attires herself
in The gray gown that had been worn
by Miss Lafarge
lie roi est mort fire le roi, she
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-10-15

A COW poor when she drops her calf in
the spring is never brought up TO her best
while being MIXED, With the richest feed
she may gain in flesh. but it VIII soon be
at the expense of her milk yield. 1t is far
more satisfactory to have the COW in the
first flow of milk i'll good condition, when
her yield may be stimulated by succulent
food, without reducing her flesh too much.
A really good COW viii lose flesh rather
than gain it while in full flow of milk